Since starting this newsletter I’ve been discovering and gathering some of the most surprising, memorable, counterintuitive and powerful insights that are evidence-backed and peer-reviewed. Today let’s debunk a few commons myths and false beliefs using a good dose of surprising evidence. Here are the top ones we explored
All the highs and lows take a toll. Anyone aiming to achieve peak long-term performance is eventually going to push hard against their own mental and physical limits. The question becomes: what will you do then? The same fire that gets you to break doors open can also burn you
“The Best Founders Have Zero Introspection.” Marc Andreessen’s words came out of a thought-provoking interview with David Senra of the Founders Podcast, discussing the mental quirks and habits of the very best entrepreneurs, according to Marc’s own experience working and partnering with those very entrepreneurs at a16z. That
I missed sending you my email last week because I was building something I didn’t expect to become so deep in nature: I designed a system to manage a swarm of LLM agents. I call the system Super_Agents and it’s free to use. It’s a personal
Can you learn to see around corners? To see the wave coming before everyone else does? To keep one foot leaning into the future, while the other stays grounded in the present? As an entrepreneur, this is one of the most under-appreciated skills to develop. What I mean by Seeing
Despite of all their training, chess masters sometimes miss simple wins. But when researchers place them in front of a board with a familiar pattern, something strange happens. Their performance drops by three standard deviations. Statistically, they become mediocre players. “The eye movements of expert players show that the first
Paul Orfalea built Kinko’s into a $2.4 billion company. He was expelled from four schools, graduated eighth from the bottom of his class of 1,200, and was fired from every job he held — including scooping ice cream. He has both dyslexia and what he describes as “ADHD
Work Expands to Fill All Time Available I recently had a personal insight about feeling like I constantly have too much going on. When I decide to take on a task or role, I didn’t notice there’s a hidden future tax on my time. Some things keep asking
Sorry to start so dramatically, but we are slowly decaying. This is what the 2nd law of thermodynamics is about: entropy. Simply explained, entropy the gradual decline into disorder. Hot coffee gets colder as heat dissipates across space. As default, the universe tend moves from order to disorder. “Everything subject
The founder who sets a $1 billion revenue goal isn’t necessarily more ego-driven than the one who aims to do $1 million in revenue. They might have less ego, not more. I know this sounds backwards. Much of startup culture sits on big goals, reality distortion fields, and founders
Today is another free chapter from Tao of Founders. Enjoy! Founders roll through dozens of decisions each day. Your role demands that you spend hours evaluating, comparing, and deciding what is best for you and your startup. The quality of those decisions ultimately determines the quality of your work. Decisions
🎄 Happy holidays! Consider gifting Tao of Founders to an entrepreneur you love ❤️ On Vision & Execution “Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” — Edwin Land, Founder of Polaroid Land possessed an extraordinary capacity for mental visualization—an ability to see entire complex systems in